trapp Pro Member United States Joined 5433 days ago 7 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 1 of 5 21 October 2012 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
I'm looking for a website where I can paste in a chunk of Bengali text and be shown the same material transliterated (not translated) into roman characters.
There seems to be lots of help going in the other direction (typing Bengali in roman characters and producing the Bengali script), but I can't find anything in the other direction.
I'm working on learning the script, but I'm still slow at it. Sometimes it would be a great help to see a quick transliteration -- even if it's not perfect.
Thanks.
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stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5831 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin
| Message 2 of 5 21 October 2012 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
Google translate. Make sure you have 'allow phonetic typing' checked
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michaelyus Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4564 days ago 53 posts - 87 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Italian, French, Cantonese, Korean, Catalan, Vietnamese, Lingala, Spanish Studies: Hokkien
| Message 3 of 5 21 October 2012 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
There's also this website for Bengali into IPA, which is more pronunciation-based than Google Translate. I don't think its accuracy is particularly noteworthy though - maybe the script-based version is better in the early stages anyway.
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trapp Pro Member United States Joined 5433 days ago 7 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 5 22 October 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged |
Stelingo, thanks for pointing that out. I had looked at Google Translate but hadn't seen that.
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trapp Pro Member United States Joined 5433 days ago 7 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 5 22 October 2012 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
Thanks, Michaelyus. The IPA might present its own challenges, but it's certainly worth checking out. And that page seems to have lots of other interesting stuff on it too.
trapp
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